If you have a napkin, you need another napkin to receive back all the blessings you'll get. And you keep giving. Then you need a towel to receive all the gifts. And you continue giving. Finally, you need a tablecloth. And you continue giving - not stupidly, but you give. And when you give, you finally have to move out and get a second house, and a third house and a fourth.It is a no - fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.

I think we have systematically and critically harmed ourselves and many young people by advising them not to try things.

You can see in others what they don't see in themselves and what the world doesn't see in them.

Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you... yet, someone survived... You can do anything you choose to do.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.